The winter this year in New Zealand must be one of the wettest for a couple of years.
I’ve been unable so far to go back and finish the wide line or to fly over and take photos as-is.
I hope it clears up soon as I’m due to go back to the UK soon.
After the successful flight overhead to check the draft of the kiwi, it was time to widen the line up a bit.
I had planned to use a high pressure paint sprayer, but due to lack of electricity on the site, I settled for a lawnmower to cut the grass really short followed by a paint roller and a lot of paint.
Here are the results.
The line is about 30cm (1 foot) wide – This shot is of the bottom half of the kiwi.
A close up of a foot.
Unfortunately, the grass was too wet for me to finish the ‘beak’. Hopefully the weather will start clearing up and I will be able to paint it soon.
I finally had a day where the weather wasn’t too bad so I took the opportunity to hire a plane (I have my pilots license) and fly over the kiwi. This wasn’t the official photography run, just a chance to make sure it looked OK before 50+ Litres of white paint was laid down on the grass.
This was the plane we hired from North Shore Aero Club.
This was the best photo we managed.
At this point remember that the line was only around 2 inches thick and had been out in heavy rain for a good few weeks.
Either way, the kiwi looked good so I’ll be going up in the near future to thicken the line out a bit.
